The Master Keys to the Study of Ancient Kemet- Notes by Nana Baffour Amankwatia II1

1. OPEN THE VIDEO SERIES
Lecture given by Nana Baffour Amankwatia II) presented by the Third Eye
Source of Text: THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY (offline)
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/kemet.html
Notes by Kenneth Ritchards
IN RBG Blakademics, June, 2010
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2. MASTER KEYS FOR UNDERSTANDING ANCIENT KEMET
Accompanying chart - Kemetic Chronology
1. Cultural Antiquity and Continuity Starts in Pre-Dynastic Times and Go to 640 A.D. We must
remember this when reading or listening to presentations about Kemet. Even those who
eventually conquered Kemet adopted its culture.
2. Older is Better. The older architecture is superior to the later works. It's as if the art and
discipline was forgotten with time.
3. The Entire Orientation of the Ancient Kamites is Southern. Word for face and South, right and
West, left and East, North and back of head are respectively the same.
4. The Origin of the Kamites is Southern.
5. Leadership is Southern. The main leadership that ruled ancient Kemet always came from the
South
6. All Invasions Were Destructive. No one donated culture to ancient Kemet
7. Arabic Migration Mixes with Nubian People in the Kemetic Valley at and After the Time of
Muhammad. Arabic people come in from Syria and Assyria in large numbers for the first time as
the first large population of settlers after Muhammad. And with Islam, you have the first change
in the fundamental culture of Kemet.
8. Science Generated Religion. The ancient Kemetic people got religion by studying aspects of
nature. Nature, when viewed systematically, represents "God" anywhere you look. If you keep
seeing the same patterns and rules repeated over and over again in nature, you suddenly realize
that there is something bigger that you can't grasp that is behind all this. Therefore, you study
yourself into religion. The religion that the Kemetic people developed through study is the same
religion that others borrowed from the ancient Kamites without study. Science generated
religion, it generated philosophy, and it generated general culture (religion was not Sunday). 9.
There is No Dualism in Kemetic Culture. Dualism in interpretation philosophically or culturally
is a western phenomenon. (Example, Kierkegaard: It's got to be either this or that). The priest
was a scientist. No split between a person searching truth through one means and a person
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3. seeking it through another. No split between science and religion, the sacred and the secular.
EIGHT RULES FOR SEARCHING ABOUT INFORMATION ABOUT
ANCIENT KEMET
…because of all the mistakes that have been made in the study of ancient Kemet by most of
those who have been funded to do that research in the western world, those in France, those in
the United States.
1. Organize Your Data in Chronological Order. Know where you are in time whenever you are
reading a piece of literature.
2. Make Sure You Always Use the Kemetic Names. Never use the foreign names for Kemetic
reality, towns, or people because the names contain as much of the history as the text that is
written besides the names. If your change names, you lose the meaning. Keep the names correct,
or you will miss data for interpreting the meaning of what you are looking at
3. Keep your Images Straight. Compare royal images to royal images, holy images to holy
images, common images to common images.
4. Look for Activity in the Peak Periods, not the Intermediate Periods.
5. Separate Your Native People from Your Foreign People.
6. Don't Pick Pieces of Information and Treat Them in Isolation. Be comprehensive and
contextual when you treat this information.
7. Remember the Fact of Cultural Unity.
8. Use multidisciplinary, multinational team. In whatever investigation that you do, in order to
avoid the mistakes of the past, wherever possible, use multidisciplinary, multinational team.
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4. Eleven Ways That Overwhelming Show That the Ancient Kemetic People
Were Black African People (Resolved under the supervision UNESCO)
1. Evidence from physical anthropology (looking at pre-dynastic skulls)
2. Evidence from Kemetic human images
3. Testing the skins of mummies for melanin content
4. Skeletal comparisons
5. Blood group (Blood type of bodies of Kamites almost invariably B, Europeans almost
invariably A)
6. The testimonies All the Greek scholars and Roman scholars whoever described the Kamites
who were eyewitnesses were unified in calling them black people. None of them who saw them
ever called them white people. You won't find it in their literature.
7. The Kemetic self-description, they called themselves black people In fact, that was the name
of their country (The black people).
8. Divine epithets All of their gods were black.
9. Evidence from the Bible. They are children of Ham; remember? Ham's children founded
Kemet (Mizraim), Punt (Somaliland), Kush (Ethiopia), and Canaan (Palestine), and (Nimrod,
Kush's son, Ham's grandson) founded Babylon.
10. Cultural Unity with the rest of Africa.
11. Linguistic unity with more southern and western Africa
Referenced Texts Great African Thinkers, Cheikh Anta Diop's life work summarizing; Journal
of African Civilizations (vol. 8, No. 1); Van Sertima, Ivan and Larry Obadele Williams, eds.
New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1986.
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